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▪ I. outreach, n.|ˈaʊtriːtʃ|
[out- 7.]
The act of reaching out. Also, the extent or length of reaching out; spec. the fact or extent of an organization's involvement in the community. Also attrib.
1870Whittier To L.M. Child 30 No proof beyond this yearning, This outreach of our hearts, we need. 1884P. Brooks New Starts in Life v. 80 What a different thing this life and this outreach toward man becomes. 1941F. Matthiessen Amer. Renaissance iii. ii. 114 That has caught Browne's ability to take the familiar and to give it an unexpected outreach. 1950Theology LIII. 417 The spiritual outreach of the body politic. 1965R. B. Oram Cargo Handling i. 15 The management should have, ready for hire, cranes that may provide an outreach of 38 metres, as are to be found in Rotterdam. 1967Times 27 Jan. 17/1 (caption) Each lantern is attached to 12ft. long outreach brackets on..tapered steel columns. 1967Gleaner (Jamaica) 12 Nov. 9 Means and methods of furthering the outreach of the Jamaican church. 1972Evening Telegram (St. Johns, Newfoundland) 24 June 35/5 Real preaching instead of the kind that people grow fat on; real outreach concern, whether it's over the back fence or overseas. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Jan. 50/3 That was how he came to think of the Church, in its ‘out⁓reach’ into the complex social whole. 1977M. Wiles in J. Hick Myth of God Incarnate viii. 162 In his attitudes towards other men his life was a parable of the loving outreach of God to the world. 1978Amer. Libraries IX. 67 As assistant deputy director of Buffalo and Erie County (N.Y.) Public Library, William Miles..oversees such special services as library outreach for community centers.
▪ II. outreach, v.1|aʊtˈriːtʃ|
[out- 17, 18 c, 14, 15.]
1. trans. To exceed in reach, to reach or extend beyond; to exceed, surpass.
a1568R. Ascham Scholem. i. (Arb.) 21, I found the site so good..but the making so costlie, outreaching my habilitie. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 385 This..may seeme to outreach that fact, and to exceed the regular distinctions of murder. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 173 It puzzles my Conceit, and out-reaches my Wonder. 1879P. Brooks Influence of Jesus ii. 131 He..did a larger work which has far outreached the Jewish people.
†2. To overreach; to deceive, cheat; to outwit.
1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 163 Fabius..was out⁓reached and deceived by Hannibals fine stratagem of his Oxen. 1634Ford P. Warbeck iv. iv, The man Of cunning is out-reach'd; we must be safe. 1643Herle Answ. Ferne 47 The Doctor hath outreached him.
3. intr. To reach too far; to go beyond bounds.
1651N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. vi. (1739) 28 A Prince that knew how to set a full value upon Church-men,..and, it may be, did somewhat outreach in that course.
4. trans. and intr. To reach out, stretch out, extend. poet.
1594Sc. Metr. Ps. cxxxvi. vi, Yea, he the heauy charge Of all the earth did streache, And on the waters large The same he did out reache. 1801Southey Thalaba viii. xiii, They stood with earnest eyes, And arms out-reaching, when again The darkness closed around them. 1818Keats Endym. i. 867 With wings outraught And spreaded tail, a vulture could not glide Past them. 1887Bowen Virgil æneid ii. 535 Hand outreaching to hold him, and spear uplifted to smite!
So ˈoutˌreaching vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1587Golding De Mornay xxxi. 501 And for the out⁓reaching of abhominations, there shalbe desolation vnto the ende. 1875H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost xiv. 405 The symmetry and outlines of the Tree of Life, with its outreaching branches. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXX. 359/1 Other craft at anchor, sheltered by the outreaching land. 1902A. T. Mahan Retrospect & Prospect iv. 111 This outreaching of an imperialistic arm by all the greater nations..constitutes..the motive to a closer union. 1905Daily Chron. 14 Dec. 3/4 Such entire absence of out-reachings towards ‘virility’, ‘grip’, and ‘tenseness’. 1972Science 26 May 855/1 Certainly strong, outreaching, and complete fertility-control programs are desirable.
▪ III. † outˈreach, v.2 Obs. rare.
A variant of outreik v., to fit out, equip. Hence † outˈreacher, an outfitter.
1640[see outputter 3]. |